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so republican at defense. president obama also picked ray lahood for the norm mineta honorary bipartisanship chair over at the department of transportation. transportation was held by a democrat under bush. it has been held by a republican the whole time under obama. but beyond that, beyond defense and transportation, president obama also had another attempt at bringing another republican into his cabinet. you remember when he offered judd gregg the job of commerce secretary? judd gregg initially accepted the job, and then he inexplicably turned on a dime and decide he was offended at the job and would not take. he went on to resign from the senate. nobody really knows what happened with judd gregg there or since, but president obama did try to bring him on as yet another republican for his cabinet. and now today, for the fourth time, president obama has picked a republican, nominating chuck hagel, the former republican senator from nebraska for the job of defense secretary. that is four republicans that presi
so republican at defense. president obama also picked ray lahood for the norm mineta honorary bipartisanship chair over at the department of transportation. transportation was held by a democrat under bush. it has been held by a republican the whole time under obama. but beyond that, beyond defense and transportation, president obama also had another attempt at bringing another republican into his cabinet. you remember when he offered judd gregg the job of commerce secretary? judd gregg...
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was the defense strategy. the longer we keep her on the stand, the more they hear from her they will hopefully ingratiate themselves with her to a certain extent and hopefully spare her life. >> jurors had four months to think of all the questions. just two days ago, they came up with the answers. and a verdict. ♪ [ male announcer ] from the way the bristles move to the way they clean, once you try an oral-b deep sweep power brush, you'll never go back to a regular manual brush. its three cleaning zones with dynamic power bristles reach between teeth with more brush movements to remove up to 100% more plaque than a regular manual brush. and even 76% more plaque than sonicare flexcare in hard to reach areas. oral-b deep sweep 5000 power brush. life opens up when you do. [growl] oral-b deep sweep 5000 we used to live with a bear. we'd always have to go everywhere with it. get in the front. we drive. it was so embarrasing that we just wanted to say, well, go away. shoo bear. but we can't really tell bears what
was the defense strategy. the longer we keep her on the stand, the more they hear from her they will hopefully ingratiate themselves with her to a certain extent and hopefully spare her life. >> jurors had four months to think of all the questions. just two days ago, they came up with the answers. and a verdict. ♪ [ male announcer ] from the way the bristles move to the way they clean, once you try an oral-b deep sweep power brush, you'll never go back to a regular manual brush. its...
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i might be opposed to chuck hagel for defense. i might vote no on his nomination, but i'm not going to blow up 220-something years of precedent and filibuster the guy. i'm not going to block there being a vote on him. we've never done that before. republican senators john mccain, roy blunt, roger wicker, susan collins, lisa murkowski, all of these said before today that they might vote no on chuck hagel, but they wouldn't block a vote from the minority. they wouldn't filibuster. well, today when push came to shove, it was only susan collins and lisa murkowski who kept their word. the others said they wouldn't filibuster and then they did it anyway. john mccain, row wicker, lindsey graham. they all did it. senator graham says he does not want his filibuster today to be thought of as a filibuster even though that's what it is. he says he prefers to think of what he did is blocking the nomination because he wants to use it as leverage to get more information out of the administration on the president's birth certificate, i'm sorry i
i might be opposed to chuck hagel for defense. i might vote no on his nomination, but i'm not going to blow up 220-something years of precedent and filibuster the guy. i'm not going to block there being a vote on him. we've never done that before. republican senators john mccain, roy blunt, roger wicker, susan collins, lisa murkowski, all of these said before today that they might vote no on chuck hagel, but they wouldn't block a vote from the minority. they wouldn't filibuster. well, today...
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the defense secretary leon panetta has made rape and sexual assault one of his major issues as defense secretary. last year he told nbc news, quote, this is an issue that i as secretary of defense am committed to making sure we confront. where does defense secretary nominee chuck hagel stand on this issue that leon panetta thinks is so important? as a senator, hagel repeatedly voted against amendments to allow servicewomen even to pay for abortion services at military hospitals out of their own pockets. so not only will your insurance not be allowed to cover it, according to chuck hagel, you shouldn't even have access to it in military hospitals. what, go find a local service provider, deployed servicewoman? so, again, on the service, a nominee's sensitivity and politics on issues like sexual assault and abortion would seem quite irrelevant to a job like secretary of defense. but it is right in the middle of the kinds of things the secretary of defense has to deal with now. so too the issue of respect for gay people. part of the consternation over chuck hagel's anti-gay comments about
the defense secretary leon panetta has made rape and sexual assault one of his major issues as defense secretary. last year he told nbc news, quote, this is an issue that i as secretary of defense am committed to making sure we confront. where does defense secretary nominee chuck hagel stand on this issue that leon panetta thinks is so important? as a senator, hagel repeatedly voted against amendments to allow servicewomen even to pay for abortion services at military hospitals out of their own...
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its decision on the defense of marriage act this summer, the department of defense immediately began working on providing same benefits to all spouses regardless of sexual orientation. we did it because everyone who serves our country in uniform, everyone in this country, should receive all the benefits they deserve and they've earned and in accordance with the law. everyone's rights must be protected. this means that all spouses of service members are entitled to d.o.d. i.d. cards and the benefits that come with them. but several states today are refusing to issue these i.d. cards to same-sex spouses at national guard facilities. not only does this violate the state's obligations under federal law, but their actions have created hardship and inequality by forcing couples to travel long distances to federal military bases to obtain the i.d. cards they're entitled to. this is wrong. it causes division among our ranks and it furthers prejudice, which d.o.d. has fought to extinguish, as has the adl. today, i directed the chief of the national guard bureau, general frank grass, to make i
its decision on the defense of marriage act this summer, the department of defense immediately began working on providing same benefits to all spouses regardless of sexual orientation. we did it because everyone who serves our country in uniform, everyone in this country, should receive all the benefits they deserve and they've earned and in accordance with the law. everyone's rights must be protected. this means that all spouses of service members are entitled to d.o.d. i.d. cards and the...
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ministerial, and our next secretary of defense should be there. for the sake of national security, it's time to stop playing politics with our department of defense and to move beyond the distractions and delay. allow this war hero an up or down vote, and let our troops have the secretary of defense they deserve." do you remember when the top democrat in the senate, harry reid, declared just a few weeks ago the democrats would not change the rules in the senate? remember that? wouldn't change the rules to stop senate republicans from abusing the process there. harry reid decided he would just instead make a handshake deal with the republicans' top senator, mitch mcconnell. he said he was satisfied with the republicans just agreeing to be more reasonable on issues like this. remember? they wouldn't change the filibuster rules. they would just agree as gentlemen that the republicans would curtail the excesses of filibustering everything and effectively ruling from the minority. democrats decided to not change the rules on the filibuster and just mak
ministerial, and our next secretary of defense should be there. for the sake of national security, it's time to stop playing politics with our department of defense and to move beyond the distractions and delay. allow this war hero an up or down vote, and let our troops have the secretary of defense they deserve." do you remember when the top democrat in the senate, harry reid, declared just a few weeks ago the democrats would not change the rules in the senate? remember that? wouldn't...
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this is the same chuck hagel who is president obama's nominee for defense secretary now and who john mccain spent the day today vilifying and attacking as manifestly unqualified for that job. back in the day john mccain not only was kind of best buddies with chuck hagel, but he specifically said that he thought chuck hagel would make an awesome defense secretary someday. >> as far as secretary of defense is concerned, there's a lot of people that could do that. one of them i think is senator chuck hagel. >> john mccain and chuck hagel were so close that in 2000, when john mccain realized that he was not going to get the presidential nomination, when john mccain decided he had to give up that bitterly fought nomination battle, the person his campaign put out to speak to the press the day he made his decision to withdraw was his dear friend, old chuck. >> two aides tell nbc news that the arizona senator will announce a suspension of his quest for the white house. back in arizona after his crushing defeat on super tuesday mccain called supporters to thank them. >> we're glad to be home.
this is the same chuck hagel who is president obama's nominee for defense secretary now and who john mccain spent the day today vilifying and attacking as manifestly unqualified for that job. back in the day john mccain not only was kind of best buddies with chuck hagel, but he specifically said that he thought chuck hagel would make an awesome defense secretary someday. >> as far as secretary of defense is concerned, there's a lot of people that could do that. one of them i think is...
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he is going to be the new defense secretary. so the minority of republicans blocking him have had to go to some unusual lengths to justify what it is they are doing with this filibuster thing even though he is going to be confirmed anyway. the weirdness of it may now have actually some explanation. and the kind of stuff they're doing really has been something that needs an explanation. i mean, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte, take them. their most recent demand from chuck hagel, their most recent excuse for why they are participating in blocking chuck hagel's nomination is that somebody who had seen chuck hagel give a speech six years ago had later written the blog post about the speech in which he did not quote chuck hagel, but he asserted that chuck hagel had said awful things in the speech. no quotations of anything chuck hagel said there are certainly no transcripts or recordings of anything he said there is no direct attribution of anything that chuck hagel said at all. but lindsey graham and kelly ayotte wrote to chuck hag
he is going to be the new defense secretary. so the minority of republicans blocking him have had to go to some unusual lengths to justify what it is they are doing with this filibuster thing even though he is going to be confirmed anyway. the weirdness of it may now have actually some explanation. and the kind of stuff they're doing really has been something that needs an explanation. i mean, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte, take them. their most recent demand from chuck hagel, their most...
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some of these represent -- senators are representing defense contractors. they want to keep the bases in their state. they want to keep the contracts. some of them are just trying to score a political point, to attack the president as weak and naive and dangerous and even treasonous, as you just suggested. but many of them are just stuck in this cold war mentality and they can't break out of it. it's not just bayonets and battleships. it's nuclear weapons have a decreasing relevance to the threats we face today. but here you have these senators from the conservative wing of the party still clinging to this cold war arsenal, this cold war threat. so when they see somebody like chuck hagel, who's willing to question assumptions, who's thinking new, who wants to state what exactly would we use a nuclear weapon for, how many do we need, can we do with 400, do we really need, as you say, 5,000, that's very threatening to them and you saw that on display today. >> in terms of how they fit in to broader conservative politics on this, isn't it true that more sort o
some of these represent -- senators are representing defense contractors. they want to keep the bases in their state. they want to keep the contracts. some of them are just trying to score a political point, to attack the president as weak and naive and dangerous and even treasonous, as you just suggested. but many of them are just stuck in this cold war mentality and they can't break out of it. it's not just bayonets and battleships. it's nuclear weapons have a decreasing relevance to the...
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they never asked other defense nominees about this. the campaign to make chuck hagel reveal these reams of confidential information about private companies or else seems to have originated with the new guy, republican senator ted cruz. the guy from texas. long-time political scholar norman orrinstein calls this demand by senator cruz unprecedented. he continues, "that a freshman senator would ask for that level of information says more about ted cruz than about anything else. i've never heard of anything like that before. but you could say that ted cruz in the senate is unprecedented too." strange times in the u.s. senate right now. strange times. more ahead. [ male announcer ] you know that guy who sells those remote control helicopters at the mall. buy 'em or don't. whatever man. either way, he gets to fly helicopters all day. i'm talking da vinci style flying machines! he's datin' kayla, the lotion girl. able, bodied, athleticism. here's his buddy marko, who's got the hot water for his velveeta shells & cheese. achieve your dreams.
they never asked other defense nominees about this. the campaign to make chuck hagel reveal these reams of confidential information about private companies or else seems to have originated with the new guy, republican senator ted cruz. the guy from texas. long-time political scholar norman orrinstein calls this demand by senator cruz unprecedented. he continues, "that a freshman senator would ask for that level of information says more about ted cruz than about anything else. i've never...
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department was itself historically higher level of achievement for someone in the defense world. when she was there and when she was there as such a highly regarded person as a potential necklace secretary of defense, did it make a difference in the pentagon? did it make a difference in that setting to have a woman at that high level? >> right. i think it absolutely did in several different ways. number one, she was just a real inspiration, i think, for a lot of younger women, and really encouraged them to go into jobs that were perceived as being in male dominated realms. second, she really brought in a terrific crew of women into leadership positions in the pentagon, dramatically increase women in leadership positions. and positions. and when you think about the rolodex, you tend to think of people you know, and men tend to know more men, and women know more women, so getting people in that high-ranking pentagon post, it occurred to mayher in the wat may not have occurred to men, that i know kathryn hicks, or jenean davis. and then finally, michelle fourneau put a lot of effort
department was itself historically higher level of achievement for someone in the defense world. when she was there and when she was there as such a highly regarded person as a potential necklace secretary of defense, did it make a difference in the pentagon? did it make a difference in that setting to have a woman at that high level? >> right. i think it absolutely did in several different ways. number one, she was just a real inspiration, i think, for a lot of younger women, and really...
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so the burden shifts to the prosecution once self-defense is raised by the defense. but make no mistake about it. the law is like mud. this jury is going to hear this law from this court, and they're going to be like every jury. they're going to have a hard time going through it, because lawyers can't even agree what that gobbledygook means when the judge reads that law to that jury. >> faith, having said that, and about seeing the gun or grabbing for the gun, let me show you some of what john guy laid out in terms of the inconsistencies and tell me whether that addresses some of that from the prosecution's standpoint. >> sean knoffke told me to get an address. that didn't happen. listen to the tapes. listen to the walk-through and listen to the non-emergency call. sean knoffke never said that. why? why lie about that? it's so important, that's why. because he wasn't going back to the car. he was going back to trch trchl. trayvon martin covered his mouth and nose. really? you really think if that were true there wouldn't be george zimmerman blood on these sticks that
so the burden shifts to the prosecution once self-defense is raised by the defense. but make no mistake about it. the law is like mud. this jury is going to hear this law from this court, and they're going to be like every jury. they're going to have a hard time going through it, because lawyers can't even agree what that gobbledygook means when the judge reads that law to that jury. >> faith, having said that, and about seeing the gun or grabbing for the gun, let me show you some of what...
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. >> paul wolfowitz, bush's deputy secretary of defense has had saddam on his personal enemies list for two decades. >> every time he survives something he sends a message to his enemies, i outlast my enemies, and if you are on the wrong list when i'm still around, you'll be in trouble. >> paul wolfowitz had become convinced that if we looked strongly enough, if we looked closely enough, we'd find the hand of saddam hussein behind virtually every terrorist attack on the united states. >> even before 9/11, wolfowitz and undersecretary of defense douglas fife had been driving administration policy on iraq. >> some of us believed you will have a saddam hussein problem forever unless you get rid of him. >> the entire group that calls itself the vulcans, the vice president, rumsfeld, wolf wiet, rice, all of these people who walked bush national security in the year before bush became president i think they all came in with an agenda that had iraq on the top of the list or certainly in the top three and they wanted to overthrow saddam hussein. >> meeting notes from the afternoon of 9/11 showe
. >> paul wolfowitz, bush's deputy secretary of defense has had saddam on his personal enemies list for two decades. >> every time he survives something he sends a message to his enemies, i outlast my enemies, and if you are on the wrong list when i'm still around, you'll be in trouble. >> paul wolfowitz had become convinced that if we looked strongly enough, if we looked closely enough, we'd find the hand of saddam hussein behind virtually every terrorist attack on the united...
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they never asked other defense nominees about this. the campaign to make chuck hagel reveal these reams of confidential information about private companies or else seems to have originated with the new guy, republican senator ted cruz. the guy from texas. long-time political scholar norman ornstein calls this demand by senator cruz unprecedented. he continues, "that a freshman senator would ask for that level of information says more about ted cruz than about anything else. i've never heard of anything like that before. but you could say that ted cruz in the senate is unprecedented too." strange times in the u.s. senate right now. strange times. more ahead. >>> i had one fundamental question that i asked myself on every vote i took, every decision i made. was the policy worthy of the men and women that we were sending into battle and surely to their deaths? i did question a surge. it wasn't an aberration to me ever. i always asked the question, is this going to be worth the sacrifice? because there will be sacrifice. >> last week the s
they never asked other defense nominees about this. the campaign to make chuck hagel reveal these reams of confidential information about private companies or else seems to have originated with the new guy, republican senator ted cruz. the guy from texas. long-time political scholar norman ornstein calls this demand by senator cruz unprecedented. he continues, "that a freshman senator would ask for that level of information says more about ted cruz than about anything else. i've never...
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let's ask at the department of defense. let's ask the military. >> ask you for an update on pentagon drone operations. >> probably not. >> well, let's hear what you have to say when i ask the question. >> okay. >> it has now been widely acknowledged that the u.s. military earlier this year, the military, pentagon, flew drone operations over pakistan's border region in cooperation with the pakistanis to collect reconnaissance information and show it to them. can you talk about why the u.s. military is now flying drone operations or did fly drone operations over pakistan? >> i can't. i know you say it's widely acknowledged. i don't know how widely anything has been acknowledged on that count. i don't think it's appropriate for me at this podium to discuss operations that may or may not be taking place. >> what concerns do you have that these u.s. government drone strikes in pakistan may be backfiring now and simply creating more enemies of the united states? >> i refer your questions to other people. that's not something we s
let's ask at the department of defense. let's ask the military. >> ask you for an update on pentagon drone operations. >> probably not. >> well, let's hear what you have to say when i ask the question. >> okay. >> it has now been widely acknowledged that the u.s. military earlier this year, the military, pentagon, flew drone operations over pakistan's border region in cooperation with the pakistanis to collect reconnaissance information and show it to them. can you...
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self-defense. >> before the jury left for the night, they did have one request. they asked the judge for an inventory list of the evidence by number and description which the court clerk provided after getting the approval of both the prosecution and the defense. joining us now, msnbc contributor joy reid, gary kazmir, a former new york city prosecutor who does criminal and civil litigation, and former prosecutor marcia clark who is also the author of the new novel "killer ambition." so let's go around the horn and talk about the one little indication that we got from this jury. we've been trying to read them, read them like tea leaves. they want a list of the evidence. joy, let's start with you. >> i think because this is a murder trial, because it has such gravity both for the defense and also for the victim's family, i think the jurors are being careful. they're not going to give mark o'mara the quick verdict they wanted. they're going to go through evidence piece by piece by piece. i think they
self-defense. >> before the jury left for the night, they did have one request. they asked the judge for an inventory list of the evidence by number and description which the court clerk provided after getting the approval of both the prosecution and the defense. joining us now, msnbc contributor joy reid, gary kazmir, a former new york city prosecutor who does criminal and civil litigation, and former prosecutor marcia clark who is also the author of the new novel "killer...
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they turn to that as their defense each and every time. i want to reiterate why it's important for us to see this as atypical but also fairly typical. part of the reason why this matters, as you pointed out, these women's testimonies are so important. usually we don't believe them, right? it takes extraordinary circumstances for us to believe the most ordinary experience. i wanted to reiterate that point. >> let's talk about that a little bit. you and i are both survivors. we have both written and talked publicly about being survivors. in my case, i did not tell for years, and so when i hear michelle knight in that moment in the courtroom, expressing that the need to tell other people you are heard, that was an incredibly -- like, i just -- i almost don't want to talk about ariel castro. i only want to talk about michelle knight and what she does in this moment. >> yeah, seeing it again, hearing it again, i was so moved. i'm moved by both her courage and her strength but also the family members of the other women testifying on their behalf
they turn to that as their defense each and every time. i want to reiterate why it's important for us to see this as atypical but also fairly typical. part of the reason why this matters, as you pointed out, these women's testimonies are so important. usually we don't believe them, right? it takes extraordinary circumstances for us to believe the most ordinary experience. i wanted to reiterate that point. >> let's talk about that a little bit. you and i are both survivors. we have both...
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it's also the matter of her decade as a defense attorney, not a prosecutor, but a defense attorney. when she left the prosecutor's office in '02, she went to a private law firm. she started prosecuting cases and started defending defendants. among her areas of focus at that law firm, why collar criminal defense and white collar internal investigations. from that side of the legal aisle, mary jo white defended the giant global financial firm morgan stanley. she defended the ceo of bank of america. she defended jpmorgan chase and the financial cases that almost swallowed hole the nation's economy. if she is confirmed, her new job would be to oversee some of those former clients of hers to make sure they follow the rules. she is an interesting choice, right? a highly qualified but interesting choice. if you are the kind of wall street guy who can't believe you didn't go to prison for what happened in '08? who can't believe what you guys got away with when you crashed the national economy by knowingly breaking all the rules? if you're that guy on wall street tonight and you're still beh
it's also the matter of her decade as a defense attorney, not a prosecutor, but a defense attorney. when she left the prosecutor's office in '02, she went to a private law firm. she started prosecuting cases and started defending defendants. among her areas of focus at that law firm, why collar criminal defense and white collar internal investigations. from that side of the legal aisle, mary jo white defended the giant global financial firm morgan stanley. she defended the ceo of bank of...
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that there was nothing wrong with the age-old consideration of self-defense as a defense to having killed somebody or hurt somebody? do you agree with him, and what do you think he meant by making that assertion? >> well, so it's always been the case that self-defense even before stand your ground law existed that a person can defend him or herself if there is a threat to life or serious bodily injury. and there's no reasonable opportunity to retreat with safety. what the stand your ground law does is says a person doesn't have to retreat, doesn't have to break off from a fight like that. even if there's an opportunity to do so safely. so it increases the chances that someone will use deadly force when it's not really necessary to do that. >> one of the unknowns, beyond whether or not florida might change its stand your ground law, other states might in response to the kind of pressure we saw from the attorney general, from these protesters today, pressure i think that's going to be ongoing. one of the other things we're waiting to find out is whether the justice department might get invo
that there was nothing wrong with the age-old consideration of self-defense as a defense to having killed somebody or hurt somebody? do you agree with him, and what do you think he meant by making that assertion? >> well, so it's always been the case that self-defense even before stand your ground law existed that a person can defend him or herself if there is a threat to life or serious bodily injury. and there's no reasonable opportunity to retreat with safety. what the stand your...
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. >> paul wolfowitz, bush's deputy secretary of defense has had saddam on his personal enemies list for two decades. >> every time he survives something he sends a message to his enemies, i outlast my enemies, and if you are on the wrong list when i'm still around, you'll be in trouble. >> paul wolfowitz had become convinced that if we looked strongly enough, if we looked closely enough, we'd find the hand of saddam hussein behind virtually every terrorist attack on the united states. >> even before 9/11, wolfowitz and undersecretary of defense douglas fife had been driving administration policy on iraq. >> some of us believed you will have a saddam hussein problem forever unless you get rid of him. >>> the meeting notes show donald rumsfeld looking for one good enough to hit saddam hussein. >> we all looked at each other like what are they talking about? saddam hussein? osama bin laden hates him. >> the word goes out to the cia, the fbi and all the intelligence services, find the connection. first, though, the war on terror goes to afghanistan to capture or kill osama bin laden and des
. >> paul wolfowitz, bush's deputy secretary of defense has had saddam on his personal enemies list for two decades. >> every time he survives something he sends a message to his enemies, i outlast my enemies, and if you are on the wrong list when i'm still around, you'll be in trouble. >> paul wolfowitz had become convinced that if we looked strongly enough, if we looked closely enough, we'd find the hand of saddam hussein behind virtually every terrorist attack on the united...
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the supreme court is going to hear challenges to the defense of marriage act next month. the question also depends on congress. and that's because the obama administration has decided to not defend that law. the obama administration says they believe that doma is unconstitutional. they will not defend it. it is house republicans specifically who are defending that law in court at the direction of house speaker john boehner, using your tax dollars. this is chief warrant officer charlie morgan. after serving for the better part of two decades, after deploying overseas, after leaving behind her partner and their young daughter for a year while she served in kuwait, chief warrant officer charlie morgan asked for a meeting with speaker john boehner. she told the speaker that she had stage 4 breast cancer, inoperable. she told him that her own father had served in the army and was killed in a car wreck in an accident as he was getting ready for deployment in vietnam when she was just a little kid. officer morgan writing, quote, my mom and i received va and social security benef
the supreme court is going to hear challenges to the defense of marriage act next month. the question also depends on congress. and that's because the obama administration has decided to not defend that law. the obama administration says they believe that doma is unconstitutional. they will not defend it. it is house republicans specifically who are defending that law in court at the direction of house speaker john boehner, using your tax dollars. this is chief warrant officer charlie morgan....
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and then the defense counsel and the prosecuting counsel identify themselves. they say good morning, your honor. the judge then asked the defense counsel you have had an opportunity to speak with your client? the answer is very briefly your honor. then the judge says to the patient/defendant, so you have your lawyers here. the defendant nods affirmatively. then it's the judge. mr. tsarnaev, i am magistrate judge bowler. this hearing is your initial appearance before the court. we're here because you have been charged in a federal complaint. at this hearing i will advise you of your constitutional and legal rights. i will tell you about the charges against you and the penalties that the court could impose if you are found guilty. you have been charged with one use of a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting in death. the judge asks the prosecuting attorney what are the maximum penalties. the prosecutor tells her death or imprisonment for life or imprisonment for any term of years. and it's the judge again, speaking to the defe
and then the defense counsel and the prosecuting counsel identify themselves. they say good morning, your honor. the judge then asked the defense counsel you have had an opportunity to speak with your client? the answer is very briefly your honor. then the judge says to the patient/defendant, so you have your lawyers here. the defendant nods affirmatively. then it's the judge. mr. tsarnaev, i am magistrate judge bowler. this hearing is your initial appearance before the court. we're here...
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and senator merkley proposed that as an amendment to the big must-past defense bill. well, that big, must-pass defense bill is, in fact, passing the united states senate tonight. but it does not include jeff merkley's amendment about afghanistan. so there's no reason to expect any congressional debate on afghanistan, even as we head into what is another year of the longest war in american history. the defense bill also will not include the aggressive changes to the way the military prosecutes sexual assault among service members, which had been proposed this year. something a lot of people had both hoped and expected would get done through this legislation. that will not be in the bill either. on the bright side, though, the defense bill passed in the senate tonight also did not start a new war. senators tried. senators tried and threatened and then ultimately failed to attach an amendment to that defense bill that would have imposed new sanctions on iran. if they had succeeded, that would have blown up the diplomatic channel that we have just opened with iran over it
and senator merkley proposed that as an amendment to the big must-past defense bill. well, that big, must-pass defense bill is, in fact, passing the united states senate tonight. but it does not include jeff merkley's amendment about afghanistan. so there's no reason to expect any congressional debate on afghanistan, even as we head into what is another year of the longest war in american history. the defense bill also will not include the aggressive changes to the way the military prosecutes...
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all that you can to demonstrate unequivocally why diplomacy and development are right up there with defense. how when we think about who we are as americans, it's because we are united and committed across our government to do whatever is required to fulfill the missions we have assumed as public officials and public servants. >> right up there with defense. that is one of the big ideas of the obama presidency, right? essentially, reorienting how america deals with the world away from the u.s. military and toward u.s. diplomacy. to upscale our soft power capacity as a country so we have more options beyond just the option of force. this president did a lot to advance that idea simply by putting somebody as high profile as hillary clinton in the job of america's head diplomat. but the overall goal of upscaling state, upscaling diplomacy and development so they are right up there with defense, like she said today, that is widely regarded as a goal that is not yet realized. secretary clinton alluded to that fact today when she said she now plans to become an advocate for that cause from the ou
all that you can to demonstrate unequivocally why diplomacy and development are right up there with defense. how when we think about who we are as americans, it's because we are united and committed across our government to do whatever is required to fulfill the missions we have assumed as public officials and public servants. >> right up there with defense. that is one of the big ideas of the obama presidency, right? essentially, reorienting how america deals with the world away from the...
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that's not at issue because if he showed, it's not a defense to the changes that were brought against him under the espionage act and aiding the enemy. whether you think he's a whistle blower or a traitor is not relevant to the charges against him. >> why do you think that is the basis of the defense and the defense is bringing it up to try to help show that he wasn't intentionally passing information on to the enemy. in the court of public opinion, it's really about our understanding of national security leaks and how they should be treated in cases where the leaker does not intend to harm the national security. bradley manning is somebody who downloaded 750,000 documents and passed them along. i personally don't think of him as a classic whistle blower because i don't think he could have read the do you means. if you give him 30 seconds per document and 12 hours a day, it would take him longer than the time he was in iraq. he had no intent to harm the united states. really should the espionage act used to prosecute enemies of the state be used in the situation? as the obama administ
that's not at issue because if he showed, it's not a defense to the changes that were brought against him under the espionage act and aiding the enemy. whether you think he's a whistle blower or a traitor is not relevant to the charges against him. >> why do you think that is the basis of the defense and the defense is bringing it up to try to help show that he wasn't intentionally passing information on to the enemy. in the court of public opinion, it's really about our understanding of...
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this is defense spending over time. kind of random, in one quarter, defense spending goes up and down, all over the map. that doesn't say anything about defense policy, just a characteristic of how the pentagon spends. it happens in fits and starts for a bunch of different reasons. the defense spending chart is what economics geeks call lumpy. but when it gets lumpy, drops sharply, gdp goes down. the last big dip on the defense spending chart there, the really big dip there? that is last quarter, the one where we had the overall shrinkage. the only other big plunge in defense spending coincided with the unexpectedly bad economic quarter for the whole year. the other thing, i say this about policy, it is just about the scale of how much we spend on defense. we spend so much money on defense that when we stop spending all of a sudden the economy really feels it. defense spending jumps around a lot for a lot of different reasons. and when it jumps way down like it did last quarter, that is when we get the square economic g
this is defense spending over time. kind of random, in one quarter, defense spending goes up and down, all over the map. that doesn't say anything about defense policy, just a characteristic of how the pentagon spends. it happens in fits and starts for a bunch of different reasons. the defense spending chart is what economics geeks call lumpy. but when it gets lumpy, drops sharply, gdp goes down. the last big dip on the defense spending chart there, the really big dip there? that is last...
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and republicans are the national defense and democrats are not. >> leon panetta is secretary of defense now and he has put himself between bob gates and chuck hagel. but the second thing, and i mean this as no negative. this are very qualified, competent people in the democratic party who are more than competent to run the department of defense. that said, the democrats, many of them that came in with president obama, that were also part of the concern that americans don't trust democrats to deploy power, to be forceful in the world have adopted in many of the institutions they have built in the last four to five to six years a pentagon-hugging strategy of not wanting to reform or cut because of the fear that they will be considered vietnam democrats, anti-military democrats. so to send in a republican in an era of austerity to slash budgets and to basically send a message that at the end of this, we're going to apply intelligence and technology to our security platforms and come out with more security deliverables, even though we're spending less is something that i think president oba
and republicans are the national defense and democrats are not. >> leon panetta is secretary of defense now and he has put himself between bob gates and chuck hagel. but the second thing, and i mean this as no negative. this are very qualified, competent people in the democratic party who are more than competent to run the department of defense. that said, the democrats, many of them that came in with president obama, that were also part of the concern that americans don't trust democrats...
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the national defense authorization act is a great first step. senator levin wrote some very practical language into the act that would have allowed us to completely close it as you've pointed out. we'll be able to have simpler rules to move those detainees that have been languishing for some cases up to ten years. and get them back to their country of orgin. he was joined by senator mccain. we have representative at the white house to make this happen and now is the time in history that we can make this happen. >> to hear your describe it as a blob on our history -- never should have existed. >> there was a number of reasons. every service, every officer in every branch of the service takes an oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states. it's my belief that the constitution does not end at the water's edge and that as a nation, we have to walk the walk not just talk the talk. >> do you think that if the political steps and the lodgistic steps were taken to shut it down that could happen over the course of the next year or so
the national defense authorization act is a great first step. senator levin wrote some very practical language into the act that would have allowed us to completely close it as you've pointed out. we'll be able to have simpler rules to move those detainees that have been languishing for some cases up to ten years. and get them back to their country of orgin. he was joined by senator mccain. we have representative at the white house to make this happen and now is the time in history that we can...